Strange Horizons will have 3 FICTION SUBMISSION WINDOWS in 2025.

General
April 16th
with a 1,000 story cap

Novelette (10k to 18k words)
June 4th
with a 300 story cap

Indigenous Authors
November 3rd
with a 500 story cap

Submission windows will begin at 9am UTC and end when we reach the cap.

stunning book, stunning art. sometimes i love the world

Calling it DEI Savings Time so they'll finally end this thing.

A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

every time i try to learn how to knit i have visions like this in my head, but my efforts inevitably, eternally only lead to a lumpy wad of fraying string and a mountain of sadness

(if you want your own sweater and can knit like a champ, i salute you, and the pattern is here: tinyurl.com/3n7z95xt)

The Lakota People's Law Project's 2025 Decolonized Reading List. There is so much to choose from here.

lakotalaw.org/news/2025-01...

There is still beauty in this world

it was just me and another guy at yoga so the instructor just stretched us into pretzels and then sent us home cured. how do i chase this feeling (less pain)??

can you put dirty potatoes in the dishwasher, no reason just wondering

Was thinking about how weird it was to grow up queer in the 80s. No role models, nowhere to buy rainbow booty shorts, didn’t know why I wanted Gillian Anderson to step on me

I have never been menaced by a goose AMA

just recorded a macro + assigned a keyboard shortcut which solved 92% of my frustration in re: an enragingly frequent work-flavored task and i would just like some applause, maybe a cookie, maybe 2 who knows let's see where the day and my dubious ability to Can in the best of circumstances takes us

IN THE PAST 2 DAYS, 4 applications i use all day AND my goddamn macOS all booted up their bullshit AI assistants and now i get a "would you like help with this [task]" every time i do something and i can't turn it off and i am going to smash my laptop against the wall and go die in the woods i stfg

i pretend i do not see

i'm credited as "Staff Writer" on 99% of my work articles, but occasionally my boss gives me a byline for event coverage. which is always lovely! but i only find out she's done it when i suddenly get hosed down by a blast of very hopeful, so very irrelvant emails from public relations folks

just signed my audible renewal for Stranger Here. it is a 7-11 hotdog worth of cold hard cash (maybe half a dozen and a slurpee in Canadian dollars) but it is such a joy that the book keeps on keeping on its small little way

dropped the puppy off at her new daycare this morning and met a frenchie there named Jean Claude, so that’s my day sorted

I drive just fast enough to be of the firm opinion that songs should not be permitted to have police sirens in them

One of my firm, foundational beliefs: I am too dumb to learn how to knit (ask me how I know wait don’t, it still burns)